Natalie Wolchover

So-called “analogue experiments” are becoming increasingly common in physics, but do they teach or mislead?

Can a fluid analogue of a black hole point physicists toward the theory of quantum gravity, or is it a red herring?

The impasse in math and science instruction runs deeper than test scores or the latest educational theory. What can we learn from the best teachers on the front lines?

The first star map from the ESA’s Gaia space telescope is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Milky Way galaxy.

Just months after their discovery, gravitational waves coming from the mergers of black holes are shaking up astrophysics.

The absence of supersymmetry particles at the Large Hadron Collider has settled a 16-year-old bet among physicists.

A discrepancy in the measured size of the “deuteron” increases the chance that something is amiss in our understanding of atoms.

Physicists are confronting their “nightmare scenario.” What does the absence of new particles suggest about how nature works?

The physicist-mathematician Miranda Cheng is working to harness a mysterious connection between string theory, algebra and number theory.